re eliding portions of libast::optget() usage strings via #ifdef SOLARIS or whatever
the optget() usage string contains: (1) information required for short and long options, and proper rendering of diagnostics for option errors (2) version, author and copyright information (3) optional callback hooks for runtime generated information (4) other text to produce an acceptable man page all but (4) are required for proper operation of ast utilities omit any of (1)(2)(3) and at minimum the upstream can no longer vouch for utility behavior -- Glenn Fowler -- at&t Research, Florham Park NJ --